Dear Sir, Lovely flower. I came to know that it is commonly called the 'Common Vetch'. Some info about the species as follows:
Vetch is a nitrogen fixing leguminous plant. Although considered a weed when found growing in a cultivated grainfield, this hardy plant is often grown as green manure or livestock fodder. Horses thrive very well on Common Vetch, even better than on clover and rye grass; the same applies to fattening cattle, which feed faster on vetch than on most grasses or other edible plants. Danger often arises from livestock eating too much vetch, especially when podded; colics and other stomach disorders are apt to be produced by the excessive loads devoured. Common Vetch has also been part of the human diet, as attested by carbonised remains found at early Neolithic sites in Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia. It has also been reported from predynastic sites of ancient Egypt, and several Bronze Age sites in Turkmenia and Slovakia. However, definite evidence for later vetch cultivation is available only for Roman times. regards Shantanu : ) On Sep 1, 9:45 am, tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sir ji Thnaks I was not aware of its new name > Tanay > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > *Vicia sativa *subsp*. nigra *(L) Ehrh. (syn:* V. angustifolia L.) from > > Kashmir, a common weed in fields, among shrubs in mountain slopes. > > Photographed from Baramula on June 24, 2010. > > * > > -- > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > Retired Associate Professor > > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > >http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- > Tanay Bose > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant > Department of Botany > University of British Columbia > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036
